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Rethinking trust in direct messages in the AI era
| Kim Laine, Shrey Jain, Betül Durak, Radames Cruz Moreno, and Robert Sim
Microsoft researchers are proposing a new way to ensure greater trust and accountability in email, texts, direct messages on social platforms, even phone calls, to help mitigate sophisticated threats from AI-related scams and fraud.
Research trends in privacy, security and cryptography
| Manuel Costa, Weidong Cui, Karen Easterbrook, Paul England, Hamed Khanpour, Kim Laine, Kapil Vaswani, Mike Walker, and Ryen W. White
Trust is essential for people and organizations to use technology with confidence. At Microsoft, we strive to earn the trust of our customers, employees, communities, and partners by committing to privacy, security, the responsible use of AI, and transparency. At…
Privacy Preserving Machine Learning: Maintaining confidentiality and preserving trust
| Victor Ruehle, Robert Sim, Sergey Yekhanin, Nishanth Chandran, Melissa Chase, Daniel Jones, Kim Laine, Boris Köpf, Jaime Teevan, Jim Kleewein, and Saravan Rajmohan
Machine learning (ML) offers tremendous opportunities to increase productivity. However, ML systems are only as good as the quality of the data that informs the training of ML models. And training ML models requires a significant amount of data, more…
Password Monitor: Safeguarding passwords in Microsoft Edge
| Kristin Lauter, Sreekanth Kannepalli, Kim Laine, and Radames Cruz Moreno
One of the biggest pillars for Microsoft Edge is trust. Today, to further bolster that trust while keeping our customers safe, we introduce a new feature called Password Monitor. The feature notifies users if any of their saved passwords have…